• Posted by Michelle DeVilbiss, in  Site-Wide Forum May 14th, 2013, 8:26pm

  Purdue Developing Vaccine That Protects Against Multiple Strands

  The recent H7N9 virus outbreak in China is one of the most lethal seen in recent years, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). Thus far, there have been 32 fatalities from the virus. Sures…
• Posted by Elizabeth Rowland, in  Site-Wide Forum May 14th, 2013, 3:25pm

  CDC Releases New Statement on H7N9 Strain

  On May 13th, CDC released a statement that this current strain of the avian flu "cannot start a pandemic but noted there is no guarantee that it will not mutate and cause a serious pandemic". There is…
• Posted by Claire Tighe, in  Site-Wide Forum May 14th, 2013, 12:17pm

  Evidence of harmful bacteria in ready to eat foods sold at university canteens

  In Parthena Kotzekidou's article Microbiological examination of ready-to-eat foods and ready-to-bake frozen pastries from university canteens, (2013, 34(2):337-43), they discuss the high prevalence of…
• Posted by Claire Tighe, in  Site-Wide Forum May 13th, 2013, 12:10pm

  Assay for Human H7N9 Influenza A virus

  The World Heath Organization issued a report April 15, 2013 for Real-time RT-PCR detection of the H7N9 virus. From what I have gathered, this seems to be the earliest issued detection method. Here's…
• Posted by Claire Tighe, in  Site-Wide Forum May 13th, 2013, 11:57am

  Wild poliovirus in Somalia

  In a report posted on May 11, 2013 by the World Health Organization they discuss the current news that in the Banadir region of Somalia they detected a wild poliovirus type 1 from specimens collected …
• Posted by Claire Tighe, in  Site-Wide Forum May 13th, 2013, 11:29am

  new coronavirus isolated in Saudi Arabia

  For all who have read the previous post or are interested, I have an update on the new coronavirus isolated in Saudi Arabia. The virus has now been tracked to France and so far there have been 34 cas…
• Posted by Sandra S Cole, in  Site-Wide Forum May 10th, 2013, 12:56pm

  Assay for Human H7N9 Influenza A virus

  I saw in a news report (http://finance.yahoo.com/news/test-h7n9-bird-flu-china-160000646.html) that a new test for H7N9 Bird flu has been developed in China. The report of this test appears in the Ma…
• Posted by Claire Tighe, in  Site-Wide Forum May 6th, 2013, 11:25am

  Dengue Virus Vaccine

  In my personal opinion, depending on which strain seems to be more prominent of course, i think the vaccine should be fairly effective. It will still get three out of the four types. However, would …
• Posted by Claire Tighe, in  Site-Wide Forum May 6th, 2013, 11:16am

  1918 flu and recent H1N1 outbreak

  I was reading an article on the discovery channel website about the 10 worst epidemics and was wondering if anyone knows if there is any correlation between the 1918 H1N1 outbreak (the Spanish flu) an…
• Posted by Claire Tighe, in  Site-Wide Forum May 6th, 2013, 10:50am

  Current Improvement Questions

  On the Yale School of Medicine website they really highlight the application of molecular diagnostic testing in oncology. They state that it "is now possible to phenotype and genotype human tumors to…

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